The Confederate Nation: 1861–1865

Reeks: The New American Nation Series

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  • “Incisive
  • and
  • insightful.
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • As
  • good
  • a
  • short
  • history
  • of
  • the
  • Southern
  • war
  • effort
  • as
  • we
  • have.”
  • —T.
  • Harry
  • Williams,
  • Pulitzer
  • Prize–winning
  • author
  • of
  • Lincoln
  • and
  • His
  • GeneralsEmory
  • M.
  • Thomas’s
  • critically
  • acclaimed
  • chronicle
  • of
  • the
  • Confederacy
  • remains
  • widely
  • recognized
  • as
  • the
  • standard
  • history
  • of
  • the
  • South
  • during
  • the
  • Civil
  • War.
  • Now
  • with
  • a
  • new
  • introduction
  • by
  • the
  • author,
  • The
  • Confederate
  • Nation
  • presents
  • a
  • highly
  • readable,
  • highly
  • personal
  • portrait
  • of
  • the
  • Southern
  • experience
  • during
  • these
  • years.
  • Thomas,
  • renowned
  • for
  • his
  • illuminating
  • biographies
  • of
  • Robert
  • E.
  • Lee
  • and
  • other
  • Southern
  • generals,
  • here
  • delivers
  • the
  • definitive
  • account
  • of
  • the
  • political
  • and
  • military
  • events
  • that
  • shook
  • the
  • nation
  • during
  • its
  • period
  • of
  • greatest
  • turmoil.“The
  • Confederate
  • Nation
  • has
  • yet
  • to
  • be
  • superseded
  • as
  • the
  • standard
  • title
  • on
  • the
  • subject.”
  • —Journal
  • of
  • Southern
  • History“A
  • serious,
  • scholarly,
  • readable
  • work.”
  • —C.
  • Vann
  • Woodward,
  • The
  • New
  • Republic“One
  • of
  • America’s
  • most
  • eminent
  • Civil
  • War
  • historians.”
  • —Richmond Times-Dispatch
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